Two Companies Look for Gold
兩家公司尋找金礦
Introduction
Manhattan Gold Corporation and Gateway Mining are looking for gold. They are drilling holes in the ground in Canada and Australia.
Manhattan Gold Corporation 與 Gateway Mining 正在尋找金礦。他們正在加拿大和澳洲鑽孔。
Main Body
Manhattan Gold is working in Canada. They have 3 million dollars for this project. They are drilling deep holes to find gold. They have a good agreement with the local people and the government.
Manhattan Gold 正在加拿大作業。他們有 300 萬美元用於此項目。他們正在鑽深孔以尋找金礦。他們與當地人民及政府達成了良好的協議。
Gateway Mining is working in Australia. They found gold and silver in a long area. They have 21.3 million dollars to pay for the work. Now they are using bigger machines to drill deeper.
Gateway Mining 正在澳洲作業。他們在一個廣大區域發現了金和銀。他們有 2,130 萬美元支付工程費用。現在他們正使用更大的機器來深鑽。
Both companies want to find more metal. They are moving from simple tests to deep drilling.
兩家公司都希望發現更多金屬。他們正從簡單測試轉向深層鑽探。
Conclusion
These two companies are drilling deep into the earth. They want to prove they have a lot of gold.
這兩家公司正向地底深處鑽探，希望證明他們擁有大量金礦。
Vocabulary Learning
📍 Where is it?
In this text, we see words used to talk about places. To reach A2, you need to connect a company or person to a location using the word in.
- Manhattan Gold → in Canada
- Gateway Mining → in Australia
🛠️ The "Right Now" Action
Look at how the text describes work happening at this moment. We use are + word ending in -ing.
They are drilling holes. They are moving from simple tests.
The Pattern:
Subject + are + Action-ing = Something happening now.
💰 Big Numbers
When you see a dot in a number, it separates the dollars from the cents:
- 21.3 million → Twenty-one point three million.
Key Vocabulary for A2:
- Agreement: A promise or a deal between people.
- Project: A big piece of work.
- Deep: Far down from the top.